Life – 05/23

Hey everyone! How are you all? I am doing pretty well. So far, this summer has been quite structure-less and full of socializing. It’s been really nice.

Last Wednesday I went swing dancing. The event was held at a really nice park pavilion overlooking a lake. I went with my friend, and we had a ton of fun. I danced three times. Dances are great, because when you aren’t dancing at the moment, you can people-watch. There’s always that one girl there who’s wearing an absolutely crazy outfit, and that one guy who is determined to find himself a girlfriend by the end of the evening. Also, watching people dance who know what they’re doing is quite pleasurable.

Yesterday my friends and I had a cookout at a park by a lake (a different park by a lake). It was really nice – the weather was perfect. A little ways off, there was a hispanic family probably having a family reunion or something – the occasion was probably pretty important, because there was literally a mariachi band playing for it. That was pretty awesome. After a couple hours, one of my friends and I went for a little walk, which was fun. During which, I happened to look down at my feet at one point, and I found a little inchworm crawling on one of my Toms. Ah yes, I had forgotten that this is the time of year where there are caterpillars, of which I have a quasi-phobia. So I flicked it off. At least it was tiny, and not one of those big, fat ones with extravagant designs on them. I mean, they’re pretty amazing creatures that point to an amazing God – but they make me shudder. By the time we walked back to our picnic spot, it was getting dark, and we parted ways.

When I haven’t been hanging with other people, I’ve been…

reading.

working on my novel a little bit. I’ve got a few ideas in my head about how this storyline is going to go, and I’m excited.

brushing up on Polish. I’ve been using Duolingo and Busuu for that. They aren’t Rosetta Stone, but that’s okay; they have some handy features that Rosetta Stone does not. On Busuu, for example, people who speak Polish can correct my Polish exercises (in which I have to write sentences using the limited vocabulary I have learned), and I and other English speakers can correct people’s English exercises. It’s pretty great.

hand-lettering, of course.

painting, for the first time in a while! I painted one of my favorite quotes on a canvas:

H E L L O .

This blog is a place where I write about the things I enjoy, my life, things that the LORD has been teaching me, and all the ways in which He has blessed me beyond measure (hence the title of this blog). And occasionally I may post a poem or a short story or two.

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